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Gabriel Prout is grateful for a modest haul of king crab, but it's the vanishing of another crustacean variety that has the fishing port in Kodiak, Alaska, bracing for financial fallout; for the second year in a row, the lucrative snow crab season has been canceled.
"We're still definitely in survival mode trying to find a way to stay in business," he told CBS News.
When the season was canceled last year, there was a sense of confusion among the Alaska crab fisher community. Now, a sense of panic is taking hold in the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.
"It's just still extremely difficult to fathom how we could go from a healthy population in the Bering Sea to two closures in a row," Prout said.
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"We're still definitely in survival mode trying to find a way to stay in business," he told CBS News.
When the season was canceled last year, there was a sense of confusion among the Alaska crab fisher community. Now, a sense of panic is taking hold in the state's fisheries, which produce 60% of the nation's seafood.
"It's just still extremely difficult to fathom how we could go from a healthy population in the Bering Sea to two closures in a row," Prout said.
Alaska's snow crab season canceled for second year in a row as population fails to rebound
The snow crab crisis in Alaska first began in early 2022, after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs disappeared — a 90% plunge in the population.
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